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Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries (lemmy.world)
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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If only we had deflation people would not overconsume so much

[–] philm@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

bu... buut economic growth > everything else ...?

[–] jaanus20@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We can't deflate form 8 billion people and counting

[–] thank_me_its_friday@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Germany tried it once ... I mean twice

[–] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget about the Chinese. They tried too and they were much more efficient.

[–] flop@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Malthus was wrong about this too. It's not the population that's a problem, it's miles of strip malls, filled with cheap trash, and meat and dairy every meal of the day.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How else are they supposed to assuage the feeling that they're not some immortal magical beings living some divine simulation/game as the chosen ~~ones~~ players?